Harper's Magazine: 1988

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1988

January	Selected Articles Along the streets of Tehran: Life under Khomeini By John Simpson Sins of the father By Peter Sichrovsky Fiction President O'Reilly By D.M. Thomas Preparations By Kenneth Bernard Poetry You asked for it By Floyd Skloot The function of winter By Jay Parini
February	Selected Articles A wish for kings By Lewis H. Lapham On thinking through a little problem By William H. Gass Fiction Customs of the country By Madison Smartt Bell Poetry First we set up the chairs By Ariel Dorfman
March	Selected Articles The urge for an end: Contemplating suicide By Edward Hoagland A dwarf for all seasons By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Arabesque By Anton Shammas The Hills and the Creeks (Albany, 1850) By William Kennedy Poetry The tree By August Kleinzahler
April	Selected Articles A field guide to the synthetic landscape: Toward a new environmental ethic By Frederick W. Turner The sword in the stone By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction But enough about you By Gordon Lish Observing the observer By Friedrich Dürrenmatt
May	Selected Articles In defense of politics By Walter Karp Skywriting By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The trial of Allan Bloom By Frank Gannon Hidalgos By Bob Shacochis Poetry Elective mutes By Lucie Brock-Broido
June	Selected Articles I'm black, you're white, who's innocent? Race and power in an era of blame By Shelby Steele Kissinger behind closed doors By Julius Berman Fiction Tofigh By Yves Navarre The coming triumph of the free world By Rick DeMarinis
July	Selected Articles Northlight By Lewis H. Lapham Toward something American By Peter Marin Fiction Sneak By Charlie Smith America competes By Allan Gurganus Poetry In praise of degeneration By Sidney Wade
August	Selected Articles Just like us? By Gary L. Francione, Arthur L. Caplan, Roger L. Goldman, and Ingrid Newkirk Love's progress By Michael Ignatieff Fiction Small-hands Chen By Tseng-ch°I Wang The moment before the gun went off By Nadine Gordimer Poetry Sherbet By Cornelius Eady
September	Selected Articles Is there a Europe? After empire, Yalta, and malaise By Peter Schneider Are the homeless crazy? By Jonathan Kozol Fiction Theology By Margaret Eleanor Atwood Inheritance By Larry Woiwode Poetry Dialectical materialism By Bruce Weigl
October	Selected Articles The new god will fail: Moscow By George Feifer A Jew's grief By George Steiner Fiction Zapatos By Filéncio Salmón On the flats By George H. Rosen Poetry Sing along with Rehnquist By William H. Rehnquist
November	Selected Articles Keeping the future at bay: Of Republicans and their America By Robert Stone Burnt offerings By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction I was an infinitely hot and dense dot By Mark Leyner Music lessons By Lynda Barry
December	Selected Articles Politics nouveau By Lewis H. Lapham History outside of history By Greil Marcus Fiction In our state By Tom Drury Untime of the Imam By Salman Rushdie Poetry The future as a cow By Lucie Brock-Broido